蔽
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to cover; to shield; to screen; to conceal
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 艸 +12
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 蔽
- Common rank
- #2,569
- Unicode
- U+853D
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
shelter · Heisig RSH #2041
flower + shredder
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 蔽
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一言以蔽之 | one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short; in a nutshell | |
| 衣不蔽体 | lit. clothes not covering the body (idiom); fig. poverty-stricken | |
| 子网屏蔽码 | subnet mask (computing) | |
| 蔽身处 | shelter | |
| 遮天蔽日 | lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering; omnipresent; of… | |
| 核屏蔽 | nuclear shielding | |
| 蒙蔽 | to deceive; to hoodwink | |
| 后掩蔽 | backward masking | |
| 隐蔽 | to conceal; to hide; covert; under cover | |
| 屏蔽 | to screen; to block (sth or sb); to shield; (protective) shield | |
| 屏蔽罐 | cask | |
| 障蔽 | to obstruct | |
| 遮蔽 | to cover; to hide from view; to obstruct or block; defilade (military) | |
| 掩蔽 | shelter; screen; cover; protection | |
| 荫蔽 | to be shaded or concealed by foliage; to conceal; hidden; covert; shade (of a tree) | |
| 蔽芾 | luxuriant; lush; young (plants) | |
| 壅蔽 | (literary) to cover; to conceal; to hide from view |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 敝 — compare how they read.